After the construction of the Type 052D guided-missile destroyer, it has attracted great attention from military fans and military experts around the world. There are many people who think that the latest batch of Type 052D guided-missile destroyers will replace the 366 radar with the same phased array fast reaction radar of 075, upgrade the ordinary version of the 1130 to 1130 with shield, and will also increase the size of the phased array radar, and even replace the 346B phased array radar of the same model of 055 ...
On March 11, Hong Kong media Dagongwen Hui reported that the Type 052D guided-missile destroyers No. 27 and No. 28 were launched on March 10. As a senior paparazzi, Dagongwen Hui.com reported the launch of ships 052D 27 and 28, accompanied by several high-definition pictures of the latest batch of 052D. And these 052D high-definition pictures strongly clarify a series of rumors such as the latest batch of 052D shield enlargement.
A group of people said that the 052D phased array radar has increased in size
The rumor of the enlargement of the 052D shield is quite outrageous, but many people believe it
The Ali Burke 3 guided-missile destroyer replaced the main radar from the AN/SPY-1D passive phased array radar to the AN/SPY-6 active phased array radar, and the radar size was increased from 3.7 meters to 4.3 meters at Burke 1 and Burke 2. The adjustment of the radar model and shield size gives the Burke 3 an area situational awareness and anti-stealth capability that far exceeds that of the Burke 2A.
The AN/SPY-6 has 30 times the sensitivity and 2 times the detection distance of SPY-1D; The number of simultaneous tracking targets is 6 times, the number of fire channels is 3 times; For the same target of RCS, the AN/SPY-6 has twice the detection range of the AN/SPY-1D, and the US military even claims that the comprehensive performance of the SPY-6 is 100 times that of the SPY-1D. (U.S. propaganda outlets are responsible for strategic intimidation)
Many military fans have seen that Burke 3 has achieved a leap in situational awareness by changing radars and increasing the area of the front. Hypnotized himself, thinking that the latest batch of 052D, like the Burke 3, upgraded the radar and enlarged the shield size.
In December 2022, although the Type 052D guided-missile destroyer No. 26 ship was launched at the Jiangnan Shipyard, the rumor of the increase in the size of the 052D shield should have been clarified, but the surrounding area of the Jiangnan Shipyard was not able to see the commanding heights inside the shipyard, and the beautiful photos of the latest batch of 052D were not exposed to the Internet, so the question of whether the Type 052D guided-missile destroyer increased the shield size was not answered.
And the residential area of Dalian Shipyard has always been highly concerned by military fans, reporters and 500,000, so it can be said that the five 052D ships of Dalian Shipyard were built under the gaze of military fans, because the clarity of the exposure map is not very high, so there are many military fans and bloggers after seeing the new picture of 052D, it is also said that the shield of 052D has indeed increased.
But objective existence is not subject to human will. Just as the Fujian ship did not use nuclear power, the 052D did not expand the shield area. Hong Kong media Dagongwen Hui reported that the relevant photos of the 052D launch show that the radar dust cover of the 052D 27/28 ship is not larger than the radar dust cover of the earlier batch of 052D.
In 2019, the 052D two ships were launched together, pay attention to the upper and lower edges of the radar dust cover
The upper edge of the 052D's radar dust cover is the floor of the deck where the bridge is located. The lower edges of the radar dust cover are the floor of the deck where the close gun is located. Due to the limited location of the radar, it is impossible for the 052D radar to increase to the sides of the superstructure, from which it can be concluded that the so-called 052D radar size expansion is an outright rumor.
In fact, the plate really can't figure it out, why would anyone think that the radar size of the latest batch of 052D will increase? Some people will even say that the reason why the 052D's No. 27 and No. 28 ships were not installed with fast reaction radar and over-the-horizon radar was that the weight of the latest batch of yo delicious 052D radar increased, resulting in a decrease in stability, so the installation order of fast reaction radar was adjusted later.
The shield of the 052D is really large, the tonnage of the 052D is smaller than that of Burke, but the shield of the 052D is larger than the Burke shield. Even the shield of 052D is already so large that small ships resist large shields, and there are not no shield ships of six or seven thousand tons in the world, but which shield is larger than whose shield is Visakhapatnam, Kolkata, Akyuki, Asahi and Bazin?
What's more, the shield of 052D cannot be further expanded... The upper edge of the 052D's radar is against the bridge floor, the lower edge is against the near-defense gun floor, the inside is against the hull, and the outside is against the width indicator (black part, no name found, but almost such a function), phased array radar is not a patch, it is limited in all directions, how to further expand the radar area? It is reasonable to change the T/R unit.
The view of the previous 052D when it was launched
That is to say, under the premise that the Type 052D guided-missile destroyer does not move in the superstructure, it is impossible to increase the size of the phased array radar on the Type 052D missile destroyer, and the reason why the radar of the No. 27/28 ship looks two circles larger is simply because the No. 27/28 ship has not yet installed a phased array radar at this stage, and the so-called "radar" seen at this stage is just a simple dust cover...
This view is amazing...
But some people are stunned not to admit that this thing is a cover, but insist that these 4 covers are radars, and can only say that this should not be ah, and those who adhere to this view should have already hit a wall once on the Fujian ship ... Those who hit the wall once and don't know that they hit the south wall are either paranoid or pandering.